Bad Muscle Tone? 

The ending didn’t end well! I jumped off a cliff! PLEASE Add a link to the videos that give the answers to her questions! 😂

This channel is way undersubscribed. I've been binge-watching (and binge commenting, but hey at least it's good for the algorithm) the older videos on this channel. But I am really looking forward to the parasympathetic nervous system activation. I already know some breathing exercises etc. but I'm hoping to see more here!

❤ Thank you so much for this valuable information. My daughter has low muscle tone and has limited speaking ability so i cant always understand what she needs. As we were in Desperation several months ago due to daily dangerous meltdowns, i decided in a last ditch effort to create a low demand, 100% gently encouraging environment (at least as much as possible). After 1.5-2 months, i saw more progress than ever and im thinking it is connected to the overactive nervous system that you are referring to. I dont know much yet, but im learning. Thank you again.

I need answers! Please, you've two videos about the problem now and none with the solution folks can actually implement!

Hi Jeremy. I recently found your channel, and I'm posting this comment on your latest video in the hope you will see it. First, you are amazing, and Thank You for doing... what you're doing. I am a 29 year old intersex woman, diagnosed with: high functioning Autism, ADHD, POTS, Ehlers Danlos, severe PTSD from childhood abuse and more, MCAS, gender dsyphoria (being intersex can be... complex, to say the least), Brady-Tachy Arrythmia, Aortic Aneurysm, remission from stage 3 heart cancer, multiple spontaneous lung collapses, and all sorts of spinal/ muscular/ joint/ nerve issues. Basically, the entire cocktail that seems to come with Autism/ neurodifferences. I was severely abused, tortured, neglected, and judged by my radical parents, often for issues that arose from Autism/ Intersex/ chronic pains from physical issues, and their lack of open-mindness to even my doctors when I GOT my various diagnoses as a kid/ teen. Long story short, I was sent to prison at 19 for a life-or-death fight with my father, in which I obviously was the survivor. It was bad. The trauma he put me through really came out all at once. To be fair, all my older siblings got locked up before me for attempting to send him out of physical existence, but I kinda got it the worst as the youngest and I had the worst confrontation with him. I recently came home from prison a few months ago (prison is where I got and survived the heart cancer, btw), but if my body had stored a ton of stress BEFORE my incarceration, imagine how it is now, after going through the world in there. I feel crippled and handicapped. The whole experience drastically advanced the degeneration of my physical disorders, although ironically, I feel I became much stronger mentally and more self-aware/ socially functioning from the years in there. I adapted to survive and extreme environment, mentally, at least. But now I'm faced with starting my life from scratch at 29, while severely limited physically, chronically exhausted, weakened, and in pain. Not easy. And trying to develop healthy daily routines and getting good treatment, therapy, and healing while having no income and so much else to focus on is extremely hard. I have applied for SSI, but I'm nervous because I hear they make it very hard to get approved. Meanwhile, your videos have helped me understand SO much about myself I never knew was connected to the cocktail of diagnoses I listed. It seems in the 10 years I was gone, a lot has been learned about all this, but still, the way you describe things and your attitude about it all is incredible. You are inspiring, and are helping me have hope and to figure things out. So again, thank you for being a voice for people like us. Lots of love, always- Jadus, new subscriber. :)

I like that there's finally a scientific explanation for why resting is good. And why over-exercising is bad for reasons beyond "injure self" or "develop eating disorder". It also sheds some light on why last summer when I was riding 180+ miles a month on my bicycle I was a nervous wreck. (There were other factors, but exercise wasn't helping the way it usually did) My hard limit is 35 miles a week now. 😅

Dude, i saw your other video on the toe walking ive been doing my whole life. Ive been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, and that catch-all term is garbo. I've been telling them something was up with my neck since i was a teen. Going through the VA to get any kind of care is difficult, but the people ive seen have only helped me to make things worse. My right thumb and forefinger don't work properly anymore and its hard to explain to the doctor what i mean when i say that. I feel wonky. Like my hips arent even, either. The physical therapists and chiropractors they have available haven't got any training to deal with the nervous system, so their treatment plans have left me unable to drive any longer. I am looking forward to more information, in the hopes i can find care that will help. I live in a rural area, so it's unlikely to be easy, regardless.

Please don’t be a quack

Yea im with that lady, HOW?

I wish you had a muscle tone playlist, but I will find every one of these videos, I am determined…

I would be very interested in your take on hEDS in autism.

This is blowing my mind. You've said you were once bedridden and told you might have 15 yrs to live because of all your symptoms- I'd love to hear more about that if you ever feel comfortable sharing. I've been experiencing a buttload of unexplained physical symptoms in the past year and I'm starting to think it's the result of a chronically overactive sympathetic nervous system (I'm autistic and have cptsd, ptsd etc). I really wanna get to the bottom of this and understand it better and you seem to have done sooo much work and research around this!

I love how your videos are oriented toward neuroscience, biology etc. Could you please share the sources you used for this video?

As an autistic person, I *really* dislike this pandering notion that ableism is the sole cause of our woes. Ableism *is clearly a problem,* yes, but being autistic is *inherently challenging* inasmuch as autism, by definition, is a disorder characterized by social deficits. If you take the most social animal in the history of four billion years of evolution and you give it social deficits, it's going to suffer for having those social deficits, no matter how nice and understanding the other social animals are. This is made abundantly clear by the extreme example of nonverbal autistic people. To say of them "There's nothing wrong with them, it's *society* that's wrong!" is just a condescending insult to their plight. Trying to *reduce* their suffering to being misunderstood by others is profoundly tone deaf--they suffer because they're incapable of communicating the things they're thinking and feeling in the way that a neurotypical human is capable of. Even the nonverbal autistic people with the most well-informed, understanding, and patient of parents and caregivers still struggle throughout their lives. And because autism is spectral, the same principle applies at all levels of impairment. If you have social deficits, it sucks, no matter what. Those limitations can certainly give you *unique advantages*, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still suck to have them. It's ultimately the combinations of our limitations and strengths that make us who we are, but to say "There's nothing to cure" as you do is to deny the harsh reality of social impairment. It's like saying that there's nothing wrong with being paraplegic--it's just a lack of access ramps that's the problem.

I’ve never heard of any of this. I’m in constant pain. When I try to walk normally I ‘thump’ lightly. When I walk on the balls of my feet, not my toes, I do like it, but I’m not able to really do that with shoes on. Do you have any advice or recommendations, please? I am willing to research! This could be revolutionary for me.

Hi Jeremy, I hope you don't mind that this comment is unrelated to the video, but there's something that's been bugging me about autism and I'd like to hear your input. Autism started out as a diagnosis for people who were very far removed from social norms and were barely able to participate in society or take care of themselves. Nowadays autism refers to these people as well as to very talented, well spoken, successful, smart, articulate people who very much participate in society, but have certain difficulties or sensitivities which can broadly differ. I myself have many of those difficulties but I don't see why such different sets of people should be under the same umbrella term. I get that there are similarities, but for example some autistic people don't see autism as a bad thing, just different, whereas autism is a psychiatric disorder. So why use the term autism? I feel it's confusing. Many older people (40+) who have known autism and aspergers to be very debilitating due to past definitions, may find it a mislabeling when applied to adept people like yourself and other autistic youtubers. Why reclaim the term autism and not invent a separate term? Would you agree that there are non-psychiatric "labels" that still mean that the person has difficulties? For example, socially awkward, shy, introverted, sensitive, anxious, etc. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

I really appreciate the videos of yours that I've seen so far. Any chance this situation might catch your interest? A child suffering with dyslexia for a decade in school finally gets the chance to be diagnosed. However, because of the coping mechanisms they've had to come up with over the years, they end up at the very bottom of the scale of "not dyslexic" according to the psychologist. It doesn't matter that they have to read every sentence again and again because the letters keep changing on them until they glean the sentence's meaning. So, because they've had to learn to cope and work three to ten times as hard as the rest of their peers to be able to be at the bottom of the "scale", that they are somehow not dyslexic? Any way to make that make sense? My kiddo loves reading but is dyslexic. It takes them 3 hours to do a reading assignment that teachers said shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. A favorite book which they were reading every night for hours, took them 3 months to finish instead of the few days it should take someone spending that much time reading... Yet, we can't get my child help because of the above situation.

That ending, pissed me right off

I followed for more. Where is the more? I humbly await your wisdom.

Watching this is literally causing me heart palpitations with how much this makes sense to me.

Thank you !!! I've tried to figure out why PT makes me worse. I know that my sympathetic has been in over-drive. Also, your video on autism and toe walking answered SO many questions. You are helping a lot of things to come together and make sense to me. Again, THANK YOU !!

Wow that also explains the horrible term r-word strength.

This was so funny. Thank you for explaining this in such an entertaining way! 😂

I love how your videos are structured like a conversation; I find it very relatable. I often play through scenarios like this where I am explaining something, arguing, or having a conversation with another person. It's almost like practice if the topic ever does come up, or maybe I'm just trying to get my thoughts in order and imagining having to articulate something to another person helps.

Criminally underrated channel.

I need my doctors to watch this

Thank you!

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god, I just love your approach to science/health communication so much! can you share some of the sources you've been building off of? I'm wanting to go down the rabbit-hole myself now

This makes SOOOOO much sense 🤯🤯🤯 I have high tone, like elite athletic tone, and yet struggle with posture and fatigue as well as extreme anxiety/SNS response!

Appreciate your content and can't wait to learn more! Thank you for shedding light on this important topic!